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Thailand kicks off Pride Month 2025 with “Amazing Thailand Love Wins Festival”

As part of the Amazing Thailand Grand Tourism and Sports Year 2025 project, the Amazing Thailand Love Wins Festival celebrates Pride Month by honoring the LGBTQIAN+ community…

  • Published: May 28, 202512:56 pm
  • Author The Nation
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Discovery sheds light on early agriculture in China’s Zhejiang

Foundations, road, and tombs suggest site is 9,000 years old.

  • Published: May 28, 20259:49 am
  • Author Fang Aiqing
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Man high on drugs damages imperial throne in former Vietnamese capital of Hue

The throne, reportedly the original one, situated at the palace’s centre, was officially recognised as a National Treasure of Vietnam in 2015.

  • Published: May 26, 20259:38 am
  • Author Viet Nam News
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Nepal’s famed Marsi rice sees new planting season in Chhumchaur

Once famous for growing the world’s highest-altitude rice, Chhumchaur reclaims its agricultural identity as farmers revive traditional Marsi cultivation.

  • Published: May 21, 202512:10 pm
  • Author Db Budha
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Ancient silk manuscript back in China after 80 years

The parts of the three-volume manuscript that have been returned to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III, respectively. They are about…

  • Published: May 20, 20252:01 pm
  • Author Zhao Huanxin and XU LIN
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‘Sunting’: A tribute to the women who shaped Indonesia

The exhibition follows the footsteps of women who were instrumental to national development through their contributions in education, medicine and journalism.

  • Published: May 20, 202511:08 am
  • Author Nur Janti
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Recreating late Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh’s inspiring sandals

In 1947, he received a pair of sandals made from the rubber tyre of a French car—a humble yet symbolic gift. He wore them for 20 years, and they became an enduring symbol of his…

  • Published: May 20, 202510:57 am
  • Author Viet Nam News
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Bangkok’s Chao Mae Thapthim Shrine: A sacred sanctuary facing modern threats

More than a place of worship, this over 150-year-old sanctuary is a living symbol of cultural identity, spiritual devotion, and a growing struggle against gentrification in the…

  • Published: May 19, 202510:45 am
  • Author The Nation
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Ceramic works echo Chinese emperor’s aesthetics

Emperor Yongzheng's dedication to excellence was exemplified in governance and his patronage of art and aesthetic pursuits he is still known for today.

  • Published: May 15, 202511:25 am
  • Author Lin Qi
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Buddha Jayanti celebrated at UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kathmandu

Special prayers and rituals were performed at the Swayambhunath temple inside the main stupa complex to commemorate Gautam Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and death anniversary.

  • Published: May 13, 202511:20 am
  • Author The Kathmandu Post

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